OBSERVER: How Revolting! Sorry To Offend
“You have been watching Milo Edwards,” reads the headline of a card listing a glossary of British terms and references, laying on the seat of each audience member. Claiming that the show was the most ‘British’ show that he has ever written, it provided an insight into the many eccentricities and foibles of British life.
A far cry from his last Festival offering of ‘Sentimental’, a somewhat dark reflective work on the death of his parents.
And British it was, as he was quick to tell us his accent mistakes him for a posh person, even though his family roots are from County Essex, the home of UK’s bogans, and as a 30-something male confessing to having dated posh girls, and not just one. And of course there were the days he went to Cambridge for his very posh education.
So setting the tone of his background, Edwards then hit the British Class system, with some very schmick one liners interspersed with raw unforgiving facts.
He ventured into politics, Thatcher and Churchill, the Falklands War and the 1948 Palestine partition. The Royal family which he admired, did not escape his quick wit and ability to open the door to their frailties.
Closer to home, he targeted technology, podcasts, social media and family group chats while giving us an insight into his 90+ up and at them grandmother, who amongst her many attributes, excelled at carpet bowls.
A well-researched piece of theatre with unrelenting comedy, satire and delivery at a rapid pace. Posh or no Posh, Milo Edwards was very classy.
Review by Graeme McCoubrie